http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/ Engadget Comments for MasterPad prototype marries Windows 7 to 11.6-inch IPS screen (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 6:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
agreed. Win 7 & homegroup with the ability to play 1080p video is golden. the only thing that would make this better is WiDi minus the box you have to attach to the TV.

I want to be able to watch Dexter on my flat screen while a constant loop of piano cat is streamed in the PIP from my tablet/slate. Why? because Dexter just gets so serious and bloody sometimes that it helps to look at a the hilarity that is a cat playing piano so I can recenter my Chi.

make it happen you faceless, greedy companies!]]>Aug 2nd 2010 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/THE iPad competitior has arrived.
(iPad owner speaking here) ]]>Aug 2nd 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/I think it would be better if it had MeeGo. Win 7 is just not a good idea for a tablet. It isn't built for a finger use. Btw, a tablet should at least have 7-8h battery life, anything worse than that doesn't have a point.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
LOL - what a dumb name - try saying MasterPad 3 times fast and see what happens.....]]>Aug 2nd 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Anyways, I'm actually all for a W7 tablet. Why would I not want to use all the apps I already use on my pc, but now in a smaller form factor? It's better than using dumbed down versions from app stores. Plus, full flash? Hell yes! ]]>Aug 2nd 2010 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Feel the force choke Ipad?
These little things like: usb, build in webcam, card reader - they all just small fraction of your production cost, but in the end become great deal on how "well educated/no sheep brains" customer pull their decision.

If only you could listen Mr. Jobs ]]>Aug 2nd 2010 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 7:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
just a x86 tablet. but all the hype nowadays goes in to sw, i guess it's hard to dfferentiate when there's little to innovate in manufacturing.
]]>Aug 2nd 2010 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Sent from my iPad. ]]>Aug 2nd 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
The iPad is literally an iPod Touch with a big screen and huge battery. Its running iOS. Its cellphone/iPod components with a cellphone/iPod operating system.

This is a tablet computer with a full feature multitouch operating system.

Aside from being about the same size, they couldn't possibly directly compete with one another. Thats like saying that a Schwinn bicycle can compete with a CBR 600RR motorcycle. Anyone shopping for the former would not be interested in the latter, and visa versa, even though they both have two wheels. ]]>Aug 2nd 2010 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Nan it's more like the iPad is a bike that does 90% of what the motorbike does, but better - and 95% of users don't care about the 10% missing features that comes with the cruddy motorbike that only lasts half the distance of the iPad bike.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBtEhQqS1dw]]>Aug 2nd 2010 8:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
You can't even *print* on the iPad, therefore it is useless to me as anything other than an over-grown iPod.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 8:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 8:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Really...how many idiots are going to say this? It was built specifically WITH touch use in mind.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
> Aside from being about the same size, they couldn't possibly
> directly compete with one another. Thats like saying that a
> Schwinn bicycle can compete with a

That's utter nonsense. An iPad already directly competes against a
desktop PC. If this thing delivers it's promises, it could easily fill
whatever roll you have for the iPad right now]]>Aug 2nd 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Oh really?! How old are you man? Like 16?
Are you forgetting that MS has OEMs in the thousands and they produce the same shit? So, ipad will be going against literally thousands of fucking tablets running the same OS.
Like big wow!! OMFG! I think I saw a putty tat!
Moreover, those competitors will suck the profit margins out of one another until you have the same damn situation as the pc.
A cheap ass glut tablets.
]]>Aug 2nd 2010 8:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/what-microsoft-isnt-saying-about-its-ipad-compete-strategy/6963]]>Aug 2nd 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
90%? The iPad does 90% of what a normal OS tablet can do? I don't think you understand percentages.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Why do you keep repearting this over and over again, in every tablet topic. Windows 7 is *not* a tablet-OS, because Windows 7 applications are all made for mouse/keyboard control. End of story.

It's completely irrelevant if it has API's for multitouch if no existing applications make use of it, and the 'advantage' of having Windows 7 on your tablet completely evaporates if every application needs to be rewritten to make it touch friendly first. It's a catch-22 and the only way Microsoft can escape it, is by using something other than Windows 7 for their tablet business...

How hard can it be to separate 'technically possible' from 'useful in practice'...]]>Aug 2nd 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features/touch]]>Aug 2nd 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
WINDOWS 7 ON A TABLET = FAIL

It is a desktop OS! As soon as I saw the video, it was fail. The keyboard was in the middle of the damn screen. Oh, yes, you can move it off to a side or something but whats the point if the whole thing isn't visible or if it's blocking the field/area you want to type in???

No one is getting it.... and it just boggles my mind that companies are still trying to do this. Tablets need an OS that is specific to the platform. Not a full blown desktop OS with blown-up icons... FFS, get a clue.

I'd really like to see Microsoft set the standard but... ugh, don't know WTF anyone is thinking these days. They keep screwing around and the iPad just keeps getting further and further ahead of the pack.....]]>Aug 2nd 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/I've got a worse problem. First thing that keeps coming to my mind is MaxiPad]]>Aug 2nd 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Yeah, you can use it with your fingers, but that's a feature. It's built primarily for mouse and keyboard. I can use Symbian^1 with fingers too, but it's built for phones with keypad. My point is, i think it's better to use an OS which is built from scratch for finger use like MeeGo (for tablets) than OS which is mainly built for mouse and keyboard. Btw, when you use OS built for portable devices, it has for ex. better battery management.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Have a try first... These oems are showing off their items with straight out of the box installs which is a bit sad really.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 12:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/

Lmao stfu and stop being a fanboy. You can wirelessly print on an iPad, and its easier to set up than most net books or laptops that I have to set up for idiots everyday. Jesus people are getting so desperstrr to bag on the iPad they just make things up.


And yea, this tablet will be THE killer with it's USB ports ( because I want to carry around a portable HD with my mobile tablet), sd card reader (so, unlike apple "douches" I can make a spectacle of pulling out my tablet and loading up pictures instead of just showing them on my phone / camera), and flash ability ( LOL ), just like all the rest of em.

Ducman if these things are so solid, why don't you own one?]]>Aug 2nd 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 12:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Increase by how much though? Do you think that the tablet market will be divided the same way as computers are? 90% Microsoft, 8% Apple?

I think it will swing heavily in Apple's favor for tablets... even if the iPad is considered just a big iPod Touch. People like it. It's fun. It's got apps and the WIFIs. Android will be interesting to keep an eye on too.

Who knows, though. Maybe all the people who bought iPads just wanted a shiny toy... and there are actually tons of people who are dying to get their hands on a Windows laptop that is missing a keyboard.

There seems to be a strong demand for a Windows tablet on Engadget... but geeks are a tiny fraction of the market. Mom & Pop probably don't want another Windows device.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Because its going to be frustrating as all hell trying to use any of those applications without a keyboard or mouse. The advantage of all those "apps" is that they are designed from the ground up for finger based touch input. ]]>Aug 2nd 2010 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Seriously. Master(bator)pad is just about as abad a name as ipad.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Also, the iPad may be a true computer in the Turing-complete sense, but that doesn't mean it isn't unnecessarily crippled by the OS. If all you care about is media consumption, then by all means, buy an iPad, but if you want the flexibility of watching movies in your bed AND using the device for content creation, get this and a Bluetooth keyboard and go to town. Good luck writing a computer program on an iPad.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 10:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
You still hoping that 11 times is the charm for a Win 7 tablet. A Windows 7 tablet will always be a failure as a consumer product, no matter how much you want one. You'd better start your own company if you think the masses out there are going to buy some pig OS in a poke of a tablet. The concept is OK, but the reality makes little sense.]]>Aug 7th 2010 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 6:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/i dont know what the big fuss about the ipad
i mean its nothing the ipad can do that the ipod or iphone cant]]>Aug 2nd 2010 6:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/
Your absolutely right, it's better at not displaying the web correctly.]]>Aug 2nd 2010 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/No it's not.
Different devices for different people. I was in the market for one of these before my parents got me an iPad.
This has USB, a webcam, full multitasking.
Some people don't need it, some people do.
So, kindly STFU. ]]>Aug 2nd 2010 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 6:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Huh?
I thought you were the little boy, from the way you speak..
Go find something better to do. ]]>Aug 2nd 2010 7:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/02/masterpad-prototype-marries-windows-7-to-11-6-inch-ips-screen/Aug 2nd 2010 6:13AM